Riyaz al-salatin 67: REIGN OF FIRUZ SHAH, SON OF NASRAT SHAH.

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When Nasrat Shah drank the disagreeable syrup of death, his son, Firuz Shah, by the counsels of the grandees, ascended the throne. He had reigned for three years, when Sultan Mahmud Bengali, who was one of the eighteen sons of Sultan 'Alau-d-din Husain Shah, and whom Nasrat Shah had installed to the rank of a nobleman, and who in the life-time of Nasrat, conducted himself like an ameer, finding an opportunity, slew Firuz Shah, and ascended the throne by right of inheritance from his father.